Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-01
HISTORY OF TEXAS.
Adapted From a Forthcoming Work on
tho Lone star State.

tho Lone star STATE.
Gainesville Register.
Judge Grubbs of GreenyiIle has writ
ten humorous history of Texas. The
Register has not been favored with adj
vanCed sheets or with any review of the
book, and cannot, therefore, form any
estimate of the character or merits of the
work, but by giving play to the magma
ton may anticipate some Of its humorS.
For example, passing over the early his
| tory of the state, it maY be safely as
sumed that the ubiquitous boom will 81,
cure its due share Of attention and thai
the thriving towns and cities of Texas
will be written up in manner
calculated to turn the tide Of sfm-
migration from the older states cf
the Union aud from Transatlantic and
Pacific countries TeXaswaTd and iGduCe
d tremendous influx of capital for invest
ment in enterprises that promise enor-
nous returns. Partly il anticipation and
partly by way Of suggestion the Register
offers the following samples Of town
Writeups:
Gslveston-A seaport town oman island
of the Gulf of Mexico, found by Lsf.te
and founded by GslveZ. For q long
while it was inhabited exclusively by
pirates VINO gave it a distinctive ChGraC-
ter which it has ever since maintained.
OF late years the piracy Of the inhabitants
has been confined chiefly to the island,
attacks upon the state and natiOne
treasures having been driv" oacK |
with great loss to ~ ueep water
islanders. GaIvpeto-- vas formerly the !
home Of tt UChiltree and Horace B. .
Yamr-f, and is ct present under the .
= Union Of Roger Lawson Fulton, the |
man who first discovered President Cleve- .
land and who enjoys the proud distinction |
of discovering without being discovered. |
Its chief products are sand crabs and fish
Chowder Offers splendid inducements |
for canning factories and mental repose.
Fort Worth, alias PaGtheTviile-Am ush .
room village situated st the confluence of /
two forks of the Trinity river. 1. is
chiefly remarkable as the place where the
panther laid down, though just why there
should be anything remarkable about that
is only known 20 the Fort Worthites. Il
is also noted as the place where more
people get on snd of the train than
stay OH, as carefully computed by Jimb l.
Ritton, local celebrity and statistician.
John Petersmith, the inventor q the in
iation instrument known IS the boom,
achieved great fame as the bur9omaster
of the village, but was subsequently van
pushed in q tilt with q knight OF the
Drawn and muscle party. Chief products
railroads and srtesian well water.
Dallas-A prosperous hamlet on the
Trinity river, thirty miles east OF Fort
Worth, opposite the towns OF OAK Cliff
and Glencoe. It vas settled in 1904 by
John Henry Brown, and unsettled in
1886, by Barney Gibbs. 1t is at present
l1SS7) the home of Governor Bill Ster-
,ett, pulverizer of the Prohi5itiOnIsts, and
prospective candidate for Vice-presi-
iency. The inhabitGnts su5sist on
/ thick watery substance of about The
of Cruel, composed of equal
parts of Trinity river water, mud in solu-
ion and Fort Worth sewage. 2The ;
thief industry consists IN transferring ,
'eal estste titles and urging neghbOring ,
owns to send railroads TO its market. Ii
San acknowledgements SIS a town of {
Wo ThermOpylGs, the first of which mad {
10 messenger of defeat while in the last !
hey swarmed as nUmerOuSly SIS the rot :
en- eggs that followed after them Later 5
historians have given this town the name T
Il HoOdlumyille, on account OF the /
harscter Of its inhabitants and especially 9
4 its municipal officers. L is seine O
INES called TemalevIlle, in commemo- y
alton of its chief industry, which con- I
lists in the mauufacture Of Z sort L
4 greasy corn husk capsule Y
which the inhabitants desig 4
ate tamales, the same being prepared b
rom the flesh of such domestic animals :
s may be caught in traps o. other sn0Tes :
rovided tor them. The population is f
lrgeIy made up Of Mexiczns, Indians, =
egroes and dogs.
Houston-A port of entry on the Cen
rsl Railroad, about fifty miles from the
Iulf of Mexico, chiefly noted as seaport Il
lithout any sea. l. is the sest Of state
and press conventions and d
the home OF Dan McGary, Hsnlp Cook,
nc Bohemian Club and 8 varietySet snti
Chief industries, 4 soda f
'ater factory and Buffalo Bayou fish
raps. 1t has for "signDoard" ,Eest, 8
pom which are engraven all its bEsiness v
fs
Waco-The Athens ofSAmerica, the Ia
oston, Concord and VEsssr % Texas te
nd the center of the world. The tuhabi- =
subsist chiefly on nush and milk v